We invite to this special issue high-quality contributions with innovative and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture. We accept as submissions original and previously unpublished papers as well as extended versions of papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2017).

OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS

The aim of this special issue is to document new contributions to software architecture research. We seek high-quality and original contributions on principles, methods, foundations, techniques and tools as well as empirical studies, systematic literature reviews and mapping studies in the software architecture field.

All submissions should be supported by appropriate arguments and validation through case studies, experiments, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submissions: 31 March 2018
Notification: 15 October 2018

GUEST EDITORS

Antónia Lopes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Rogério de Lemos, University of Kent, U.K.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

All submitted papers should follow the guidelines for publishing in the Journal of Systems and Software and be prepared according to the Guide for Authors: http://ees.elsevier.com/jss. When submitting papers via the on-line submission system, the authors should choose an article type from the pull-down menu. Please select SI:ECSA that indicates that you are submitting to the special issue.

Papers should be between 15 to 20 pages in the final publication format and must be original, must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. In case a paper has been already presented at a conference, it should be extended by at least 30% new technical contributions, before submitted for this special issue.

CONTACT

If you have any questions concerning the topics and scope of this special issue please do not hesitate to contact the guest-editors: ecsaSI@listas.di.ciencias.ulisboa.pt